DISCORDIA

DISCORDIA is a new collection of limited edition t-shirts by contemporary artists involved with Patricia Fleming Projects from the early 90’s to the present. Artists include: Martin Boyce, Roddy Buchanan, Duncan Campbell, Justin Carter, Jacqueline Donachie, Raydale Dower, Claire Fontaine, Michael Fullerton, Douglas Gordon, Kenny Hunter, Kevin Hutcheson, Iain Kettles, Jim Lambie, Torsten Lauchmann, Scott Myles, Janie Nicoll, Steff Norwood, Danny Saunders, David Sherry, Ross Sinclair, Calum Stirling, Jane Topping, Sue Tompkins and Walker & Bromwich. DISCORDIA is part of Generation, a landmark series of exhibitions celebrating 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland, part of the Glasgow 2014 Culture Programme for the XX Commonwealth Games. DISCORDIA celebrates the ‘DIY’ and ‘lo-fi’ approach to making art and projects instrumental to the rise of artist-led activity in Glasgow. Glasgow’s position as an important centre of contemporary art production has grown from a diverse ‘grass-roots’ artistic community. The selection highlights the contribution made by artists and Patricia Fleming Projects to today’s influential contemporary art sector, from the early days of ‘Fuse’; free studios in the 90’s, to key local and international events

INK: Public Archive - Five Decades of Printmaking at the Glasgow Print Studio (If North Was South and East Was West)

INK: Public Archive - Five Decades of Printmaking at the Glasgow Print Studio Selected by AHM Sam Ainsley David Harding Alexander Moffat INK: Public Archive brings together 56 works by 52 artists from Glasgow Print Studio's extensive archive of over 1500 prints made by artists since the founding of the Studio in 1972. Works range from some of the earliest prints by John Bellany, John Byrne and Philip Reeves to more recent prints by artists such as Elizabeth Blackadder, Jim Lambie and Christine Borland. The works have been selected by AHM (Sam Ainsley, David Harding, Sandy Moffat) at the invitation of John MacKechnie the director of GPS. Ross Sinclair has written of Ainsley, Harding and Moffat: they "…have been instrumental in the development of the culture of art born in Glasgow and exported around the world for over 25 years. Put simply - the very idea of Glasgow as a new and vibrant centre for visual art would not exist on the scale or depth without their sustained efforts over a lifetime." The resulting exhibition demonstrates the full range of printmaking techniques, from older methods such as woodcut, etching, drypoint, mezzotint, collagraph, to lithography, and onwards to screenprint, photo etching and digital imaging. While definitions of ‘what is a print’ may have changed in recent years, the arrival of new methods and digital techniques have not made woodcut or etching redundant, but have simply extended the options available for the artist/printmaker. As Jacki Parry has said, "If you can ink it you can print it.

BEST LAID PLANS: 10th ANNIVERSARY NORWOOD EXHIBITION (2017 - 2018)

‘Best Laid Plans’, is a nod to Rabbie Burns, the exhibition featured many of the leading artists to have emerged from the Scottish contemporary art scene. Some with international reputations, a few past winners of the prestigious Turner Prize, and others better known within Scotland. Stylistically, there are examples of the New Figuration associated with the Glasgow School of Art in the 1980’s through to more conceptual works including installations and animation as well as artworks created this year, some specifically for the exhibition. This exhibition featured an early figurative painting and a more recent painting and animation relating to Grandes Et Petites Machines research project. The dissemination and curatorial context of this research and work, resulted in the invitation to present and exhibit outputs relating to current project CTRL+ALT+REPEAT with Norwood Arts and PIMA, New York in Autumn 2020

Priority research questions for the UK food system

The rise of food security up international political, societal and academic agendas has led to increasing interest in novel means of improving primary food production and reducing waste. There are however, also many ‘post-farm gate’ activities that are critical to food security, including processing, packaging, distributing, retailing, cooking and consuming. These activities all affect a range of important food security elements, notably availability, affordability and other aspects of access, nutrition and safety. Addressing the challenge of universal food security, in the context of a number of other policy goals (e.g. social, economic and environmental sustainability), is of keen interest to a range of UK stakeholders but requires an up-to-date evidence base and continuous innovation. An exercise was therefore conducted, under the auspices of the UK Global Food Security Programme, to identify priority research questions with a focus on the UK food system (though the outcomes may be broadly applicable to other developed nations). Emphasis was placed on incorporating a wide range of perspectives (‘world views’) from different stakeholder groups: policy, private sector, non-governmental organisations, advocacy groups and academia. A total of 456 individuals submitted 820 questions from which 100 were selected by a process of online voting and a three-stage workshop voting exercise. These 100 final questions were sorted into 10 themes and the ‘top’ question for each theme identified by a further voting exercise. This step also allowed four different stakeholder groups to select the top 7–8 questions from their perspectives. Results of these voting exercises are presented. It is clear from the wide range of questions prioritised in this exercise that the different stakeholder groups identified specific research needs on a range of post-farm gate activities and food security outcomes. Evidence needs related to food affordability, nutrition and food safety (all key elements of food security) featured highly in the exercise. While there were some questions relating to climate impacts on production, other important topics for food security (e.g. trade, transport, preference and cultural needs) were not viewed as strongly by the participants